# Week of Mon, July 13, 2026 · JapanTech

Jul 13 – Jul 19 (JST). Page: https://japantech.info/weeks/2026-W29/

## Mon, July 13, 2026

- [World's Most Advanced Video Generation AI: Bring Your 'Future Self' and 'Original CM' to Life | 15-Second CM Creation Hackathon](https://japantech.info/events/luma-s8c79236/): Mon, July 13, 2026 18:00 JST, Shinagawa City, Japan. A hackathon to create 15-second CMs and vision boards with HappyHorse 1.1 video AI. Two tracks, no coding required, 50,000 JPY in prizes.
- [TIB Scramble Meetup: Authentic Voice in the Age of AI](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5059129/): Mon, July 13, 2026 18:30 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Salon-style discussion at Tokyo Innovation Base on keeping an authentic brand voice while using generative AI, followed by open networking.

## Tue, July 14, 2026

- [Free and Open Sauce: A Brunch for Open Source Enthusiasts](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315394358/): Tue, July 14, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A relaxed brunch meetup where open source enthusiasts share projects, tools, and experiences over food in Iidabashi.
- [Tokyo Weekly Lunch](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-313907060/): Tue, July 14, 2026 12:00 JST, Tokyo Station City Sapia Tower, 1-7-12 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0005. Weekly Tuesday lunch networking for Tokyo's startup community, no pitches, just genuine conversations among founders, investors, and builders.
- [HN Tokyo Meetup #126](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-197502/): Tue, July 14, 2026 18:30 JST, TENCUPS, 〒150-0002  東京都渋谷区 渋谷 3-26-21. A casual Tokyo networking meetup for people at the intersection of tech and business, with open-floor pitch time and a small entry fee.
- [AI Product Developers Speak! Practical AI-Driven Development Meetup](https://japantech.info/events/connpass-396547/): Tue, July 14, 2026 19:00 JST, LINEヤフー株式会社 紀尾井町オフィス. A meetup where AI product developers share practical AI-driven development insights, hosted at LINE Yahoo's Kioicho office.
- [Weekly Tuesday Meetup](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315395212/): Tue, July 14, 2026 19:30 JST, Tokyo HackerSpace, Akasaka, 8 Chome−12−13 アゼリア赤坂 102. Tokyo HackerSpace's weekly Tuesday open house in Akasaka: drop in, meet members, and see the workshop and its tools.

## Wed, July 15, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315466833/): Wed, July 15, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A small-group brunch for engineers and founders to swap vibe-coding strategies over food in Iidabashi.
- [Yokohama Startup Lunch](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315462958/): Wed, July 15, 2026 12:00 JST, TECH HUB YOKOHAMA, 横浜市西区みなとみらい２丁目２番１号 横浜ランドマークタワー. Monthly networking lunch for entrepreneurs, innovators, and professionals in Yokohama's startup ecosystem, held at TECH HUB YOKOHAMA.
- [TTSIB Government Pitch](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-governmentpitch0715/): Wed, July 15, 2026 14:30 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Tohoku municipalities and Tokyo startups pitch to each other to spark public-private collaboration on regional challenges.
- [Snack and Connect](https://japantech.info/events/gcal-1cqjeihehcok5mht496nifhtmg_20260715T1600/): Wed, July 15, 2026 16:00 JST, Shibuya Startup Support, Japan, 〒150-0011 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Higashi, 1-chōme−29−３ 渋谷Bridge B棟. Drop-in weekly startup networking at Shibuya Startup Support's normally members-only Bridge office — snacks, conversation, no agenda.
- [AI Growth Tokyo 2026 - AI & Web3 Track](https://japantech.info/events/luma-x92v6uvi/): Wed, July 15, 2026 18:00 JST, Chiyoda City, Japan. Tokyo evening event on practical AI-driven growth for founders, marketers, and builders, with a Web3 track making up about 30% of sessions.
- [FOOD GROWTH MEETUP #2](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5055045/): Wed, July 15, 2026 18:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. Meetup for food companies on inbound and outbound growth: practitioners share real wins and failures in Muslim and overseas Chinese markets.
- ["HerRise" #2: Support Program for Women Entrepreneurs](https://japantech.info/events/gcal-68d22t85d51v3a9rab8tpu0dda_20260715T1830/): Wed, July 15, 2026 18:30 JST, Shibuya Startup Support, Japan, 〒150-0011 Tokyo, Shibuya City, Higashi, 1-chōme−29−３ 渋谷Bridge B棟. Session #2 of Shibuya City's hands-on workshop series for women entrepreneurs, focused on sales strategy, service design, and pricing.
- [JichiTIME Meetup with Kanagawa Prefecture x Fukuoka Prefecture x Itabashi Ward](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5027241/): Wed, July 15, 2026 18:30 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. JichiTime Meet Up where Kanagawa, Fukuoka and Itabashi present their startup co-creation programs, followed by networking.
- [IDEA CLIMBING: Learn to Explain Your Business Idea to Others](https://japantech.info/events/luma-0616jm3v/): Wed, July 15, 2026 19:00 JST, Chiyoda City, Japan. A 90-minute workshop for aspiring student founders: generate a business idea and shape it into something you can explain to others.
- [THS "Nihongo Night" Open House](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315409897/): Wed, July 15, 2026 19:30 JST, Tokyo HackerSpace, 赤坂8丁目12−13 アサレアビル102. Japanese-language open house at a hackerspace in Akasaka: drop by, meet members, see the space, and try the tools.

## Thu, July 16, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315568507/): Thu, July 16, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A small brunch meetup where developers swap dotfiles, command-line tools, and browser extensions that boost daily productivity.
- [\[Robot Learning Team Seminar\] Guest Talks by Prof. Giovanni Beltrame and Prof. Glen Berseth (Mila)](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-198171/): Thu, July 16, 2026 15:30 JST, RIKEN Nihonbashi Office, Tokyo. Two Mila guest talks at RIKEN AIP on physical AI for field robotics and robot learning, with online access open to all registered participants.
- [Thursday Gathering #389](https://japantech.info/events/gatherus-0aa7f13b-0035-4b94-a298-f3b344241d3c/): Thu, July 16, 2026 16:00 JST, CIC Tokyo, Toranomon Hills Business Tower 15F, 1 Chome-17-1 Toranomon, Minato City, Tokyo. Venture Café Tokyo's weekly open innovation gathering at CIC Tokyo, with in-person sessions and remote streaming for Tokyo's startup community.
- [Safety and Ethics in the Age of AI: An Exclusive Roundtable Discussion](https://japantech.info/events/luma-74ac425i/): Thu, July 16, 2026 20:00 JST, Minato City, Japan. An in-person roundtable with AI cybersecurity founders and experts on the future of AI safety, security, and ethics, at Venture Cafe Tokyo.

## Fri, July 17, 2026

- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315568511/): Fri, July 17, 2026 07:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A small hotel brunch exploring how large language models are changing the way people learn human languages.
- [\[Deep Learning Theory Team Seminar\] Understanding the mechanisms of fast hyperparameter transfer (by Nikhil Ghosh, Flatiron Institute)](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-198322/): Fri, July 17, 2026 14:00 JST, 東京大学本郷キャンパス工学部14号館534号室. Nikhil Ghosh on when scale-aware hyperparameters transfer from small grid searches to large models, and when they fail even under μP.
- [ai& × Moonshot Tokyo Hackathon Night](https://japantech.info/events/luma-5q9mc204/): Fri, July 17, 2026 16:00 JST, Shibuya, Japan. A one-night bilingual hackathon in Shibuya: prototype AI apps and coding agents on Kimi K2 via the ai& platform, with free API credits.
- [Nerd Nite Tokyo #80: Lighting Up and Lights Above](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315421972/): Fri, July 17, 2026 20:00 JST, Study Abroad Pub - Shin Okubo, ＳｈｉｎＯｋｕｂｏコミュニケーションビル B1F, 2 Chome-11-23 Hyakunincho, Shinjuku City, Tokyo 169-0073. Two TED-style science talks over drinks near Shinjuku: tobacco control and the brightest thing in the sky, run in English.

## Sat, July 18, 2026

- [Marunouchi Morning Code](https://japantech.info/events/luma-7xz5o7kb/): Sat, July 18, 2026 10:00 JST, 千代田区, 東京都. A casual morning meetup in central Tokyo for coding, web, cloud, blockchain, and AI enthusiasts to work and share projects together.
- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315568515/): Sat, July 18, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A small brunch meetup in Iidabashi for discussing pure mathematics, favorite theorems, and how they connect to programming.
- [Let's Translate MDN Together! Translation Community Regular Meetup (#94)](https://japantech.info/events/doorkeeper-197841/): Sat, July 18, 2026 13:00 JST, Online. An online monthly meetup to translate the Japanese MDN Web Docs together, with GitHub PR-based workflow support for beginners.
- [Turning 'Nice to Have' into 'Must Have': Silicon Valley Lessons from Customer Discovery to Scale](https://japantech.info/events/peatix-5030238/): Sat, July 18, 2026 13:00 JST, Tokyo Innovation Base, 千代田区丸の内３丁目８−３. A free seminar and networking event where NEC shares Silicon Valley lessons on moving from customer discovery to scale.

## Sun, July 19, 2026

- [AI Film Hackathon in Tokyo - July 2026](https://japantech.info/events/luma-ozjlktwq/): Sun, July 19, 2026 10:00 JST, Kawasaki, Japan. A one-day hackathon where filmmakers, creatives, and engineers make narrative short films with AI tools. Winning films screen in Hollywood.
- [Tech Brunch Event](https://japantech.info/events/meetup-315568516/): Sun, July 19, 2026 11:45 JST, Beltempo, Hotel Metropolitan Edmont, 3 Chome-10-8 Iidabashi, Chiyoda City. A small-group brunch in Iidabashi for LLM enthusiasts: model comparisons, practical workflows, and the underlying math, over food at Beltempo.
- [352nd Haskell-jp Mokumoku-kai @ Online](https://japantech.info/events/connpass-400550/): Sun, July 19, 2026 13:00 JST, Haskell-jp Slack Workspace. An online Haskell mokumoku (focused work) session where participants code or study at their own pace and can share results via lightning talk.